- Hey guys, my name is Matt Johnson and today I want to share
with you how I edit footage that is a mixture of resolutions
using Adobe Premiere Pro. So if you have some footage that is 4K and some footage that is 1080, or any other resolution for that matter, and you want it all to be in one video that is one cohesive
resolution throughout, I'm gonna show you how to to do that now. Incidentally, I'm making this tutorial because I've had a lot of
viewers comment asking me how to handle editing footage
that is multiple resolutions. I'm sure there are a lot of you out there that already know how to do this though. But if you just getting
started in Adobe Premiere and you are wondering how to handle this or maybe you've been editing for awhile and you haven't run into needing to handle multiple resolution clips, I hope this video helps you out. Let's jump right into Adobe Premiere. Alright, welcome to Adobe
Premiere Pro CC 2018. I'm going to up here to help, about, and you're going to see
I'm on version 12.0.0. If you're on an earlier version things may be very slightly different. But do not worry, I'm going
to explain how to do things and it should not be an issue. Now, I'm going to go over
here to the project window and as you can see, I have two different video
clips that I have imported. One of them is 3840 x 2160, which is 4K and the other one is 1920
x 1080, which is 1080p. And this is the point in the
video where you need to decide if you want to export in 4K or in 1080p. The way that I do it is that
I look at all my video clips and I usually shoot more 4K than 1080p, so I want to upscale all
my 1080p clips to 4K. For you though, if you
shoot a lot of 1080p, maybe you've got a lot slow
motion at 60 frames per second, your camera can't do 4K60 and you only have a bit of 4K footage, in your case you may then want to downscale your 4K
footage from 4K to 1080p. If you upscale your 1080p footage to 4K, it is not gonna look as
sharp as your 4K footage but once you render it
and upload it to YouTube, the compression, it's not
gonna make a huge difference. Likewise, if you have your 4K footage and you downscale it to 1080p, it is going to look sharper
than you 1080p footage. But, like I said, it's not
gonna be a huge difference. So it is up to you if you want to downscale or upscale your resolution but at this point, you do
need to make a decision. Don't worry though, regardless of whether you
want to downscale or upscale, I'm gonna show you what happens whenever you choose either one. Because I shoot more in 4K than 1080p, I'm going to show you how to upscale your 1080p footage on the timeline first. So let's go up here to
file, new, sequence, and that is gonna open up the
new sequence dialogue box, which is where we tell Premiere the resolution and the
frame rate of the video that we want to be editing and exporting. In this case, because it is a
4K video clip at 3840 by 2160, we're actually going to go down here and select the RED preset, even though we did not
shoot this on a RED camera, we're gonna select this
preset because it has the frame rate and resolution
that we are looking for. We're gonna go down to HD 4K and we're going to
select 4K HD 16x9 23.976, which as you can see
over here is 3840 by 2160 at 23.976 frames per second, which matches up with our video clip. Do not think you only need to use this if you are using a RED camera, I'm using a Sony a7S II with
this video, it does not matter, what matters is that the
frame rate and resolution match up with your video clips. So, now that we have that selected let's go down here to sequence name and we're gonna name this
multiple resolutions, yeah that sounds good, press OK. That is gonna create a new video timeline and we are almost ready to
begin adding our video clips. But before we do that we have one very critical settings change that we need to make. What we need to do here is go up to edit, preferences, media, and that is going to open up
the preferences dialogue box for Premiere under the media section. And what we need to pay attention to is this little section here
that says default media scaling. You want to make sure that
your default media scaling is set to, set to frame size,
so make sure that's selected and let's hit OK. Do not worry, I'll explain
why we had to change those settings in just a second but for now let's go up
here and start dragging our clips down to the timeline. So, I'm gonna go over here
to the 3840 by 2160 clip, I'm gonna click, and drag
it down onto the timeline. And that's a good looking clip, it's nice and sharp, that looks great. But it is quite long, I don't
need a five minute long clip, so let's drag that way down
and make it a lot shorter. So there is our 4K clip. Next, I'm gonna go up
here to the project window and I'm going to select
my 1920 by 1080p clip, and I'm gonna drag it down
here to the timeline as well. And if I scrub over it you're gonna see, hey, this looks really good too, and it is properly scaled in the window just like the 4K clip. So even though these clips
are different resolutions because we changed that setting, both of these clips are
now scaled properly. That said though, what
if we did not change that setting in the preferences first? Well, let's see what would happen. We'll go up here to edit,
preferences, media again, and I'm going to turn the
default media scaling to none and hit OK. And then if I delete this 1920 by 1080p clip from the timeline, go back up here and drag it down agan, Oh man! That is a lot of black
bars`around this video clip. Because this is what a 1080p video looks like in a 4K timeline. It is not being scaled so
it is actually quite small. So we do not want this. We want our video clip to
be filling the entire frame. Now, what happens if you have a clip and you do not remember to go
in and change that setting? What can you do? Well, I have good news for you. You can actually right-click
on any clip on your timeline that is not properly scaled, you can right-click on it and you can go up to set to frame size, click that and now it is
filling the full frame. And by right-clicking on this clip and selecting set to frame size, you are doing the exact
same thing that we did whenever we went up to edit, media, and changed the setting in there as well. This way you have to do
it individually though, I find that the preferences are easier. While I've been going
through all these settings, you may have actually noticed that there is a third option for scaling. So if I go up here to
edit, preferences, media, and I go to default media scaling, you'll see there is a
third drop-down option: scale to frame size. Do we want to use that? Is
scale to frame size good? No. It's not good in my opinion. Because if you set your
clips to scale to frame size, then you're not going to
be able to actually tell which of your clips are 1080
and which of your clips are 4K without needing to go
into the project window and dig through to double check. That's a pain, that's why I recommend
using set to frame size. We're gonna go in ahead and cancel out of the preferences window without making any changes, and the last thing I'm going to show you is how to adjust the scaling of your clips individually if you need to. So let's go up here to effect controls. Under effect controls you have
motion, position and scale. Scale is what we want to pay attention to because that effects the size and scaling of our video clip in the timeline. So, because I have the 1920
by 1080 video clips selected, it is currently set to a scale of 200 so that it will fill the frame properly. Let's set it back to
200 so I don't break it. Next let's look down here
at our 4K video clip, and as you can see, it is
currently set to a scale of 100. So, if you want to manipulate your scaling without having Premiere do it for you, you can definitely do that by going and adjusting the scaling individually. So, if I want it to be super
zoomed in on Noah's nose, I can do that. That's cool,
but I'm not gonna do that, let's just bring that back
to 100 and that looks good. Now, let's talk about
downscaling your video clips from 4K to 1080p for
editing and exporting. So, we're going to go up
here to file, new sequence, and as you can see we have
a sequence option preset that's already selected
here, which is great. Under digital SLR, we want to
select 1080p, DSLR 1080p24, which is gonna match the 1080p, 24 frames per second
resolution and frame rate that I want for this video. And we're gonna call
this multiple resolutions 1080p, that way its
slightly different. Hit OK. And the great news is because we already changed those settings up here in edit, preferences, media, and we changed it from
default media scaling to set to frame size, we do not need to do that again and our footage is just gonna work. So, let's go up here and
we're going to select our 1920 by 1080 video clip and we're gonna drag it onto the timeline and oh my gosh, look at
that: right resolution, that looks really, really great. But let's look at our 4K video
clip at 3840 by 2160 up here and drag that down as well, drag over it. Ta-da! Look its properly
scaled and it looks good. And if I select the clip and I go up here to the effect controls, you're gonna see that it has
auto-applied the scale to be 50 because a hundred is gonna be that and that's too much, so we
want that back down there at 50 and hey, that's looking pretty great. So now, all of our
resolutions are matching up, regardless of whether we shot in 4K or whether we shot in 1080p, if we are editing on a timeline, and we have those settings selected, you don't need to worry
about anything else because your footage is going
to match up and look great regardless of the resolution. That's it. Thank you so much for watching. I hope this video's been helpful to you and given you some great insight into how to edit videos
that are mixed resolutions. I have another video that I'm going to be coming out with very
quickly that's going to cover how to edit video that
is mixed frame rates, so if you have one camera that's shooting at 24 frames per second, another camera that's shooting
at 60 frames per second, then you switch your first
camera to 30 frames per second, and you have all these mixed
frame rates on your timeline, I'm gonna show you how
I edit that properly and make it look really good. That video will be out very soon, I will link to it up here in the corner and down in the description
whenever it is out. As always, if you have
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